Quotes

"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven."

— Bible (Ecclesiastes)

"All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time."

— Mitch Albom

"Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop."

— Lewis Carroll

"The end is where we start from."

— T. S. Eliot

"No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear."

— Greg Kincaid

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

— Plato

"I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul."

— William Ernest Henley

"Ring out the old, ring in the new."

— Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice."

— T. S. Eliot

"Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower, we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind."

— William Wordsworth

"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope."

— Frank Lloyd Wright

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."

— William Faulkner

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

— Anne Frank

"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name."

— Confucius

"The game is afoot."

— William Shakespeare

"And miles to go before I sleep."

— Robert Frost

"If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

— Jim Rohn

"Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country."

— John F. Kennedy

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

— Charles Dickens

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."

— Bible

"The rest is silence."

— William Shakespeare

"Parting is such sweet sorrow."

— William Shakespeare

"The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on."

— Omar Khayyam

"All good things must come to an end."

— Proverb

"The end justifies the means."

— Niccolò Machiavelli

"This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper."

— T. S. Eliot

"The beginning of the end."

— Unknown

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."

— John Keats

"What we do in life echoes in eternity."

— Maximus Decimus Meridius

"The time is out of joint."

— William Shakespeare

"Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death."

— Arthur Schopenhauer

"Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss."

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

"No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again."

— Buddha

"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."

— Zora Neale Hurston

"For last year's words belong to last year's language."

— T. S. Eliot

"The end of one thing means the beginning of another."

— Unknown

"To begin at the beginning."

— Dylan Thomas

"Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life."

— Douglas Pagels

"Today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten."

— Natasha Bedingfield

"No one can go back and make a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

— Maria Robinson

"The beginning is always today."

— Mary Shelley

"What we call the beginning is often the end."

— T. S. Eliot

"Beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but it's everything in between that makes it all worth living."

— Bob Marley

"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life."

— Federico Fellini

"The end of one journey is the beginning of another."

— Unknown

"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it."

— Gabriel García Márquez

"A great beginning is at times the road to a bad ending."

— Unknown

"The longest journey begins with a single step."

— Lao Tzu

"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."

— John Henry Newman

"The first step toward getting somewhere is to decide you're not going to stay where you are."

— J. P. Morgan

"The sun sets to rise again."

— Unknown

"The evening of a well-spent life brings its lamps with it."

— Joseph Joubert

"Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it."

— Unknown

"A new beginning is often disguised as a painful ending."

— Lao Tzu

"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."

— Leonard Cohen

"What is done is done."

— William Shakespeare

"Exit, pursued by a bear."

— William Shakespeare

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

— Mother Teresa

"It is not the end of the road, but the beginning of the path."

— Unknown

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."

— Tom Stoppard

"All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight."

— Shannon L. Alder

"The beginning of the end has come."

— William Pitt the Younger

"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."

— Tennessee Williams

"Nothing is ever finished and done with; things just keep going on."

— John Fowles

"The beginning of all things is small."

— Cicero

"The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."

— T. S. Eliot

"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

— Oscar Wilde

"You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one."

— Unknown

"To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven."

— Bible

"The curtain falls on a life well spent."

— Unknown

"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop."

— Lewis Carroll

"To be, or not to be, that is the question."

— William Shakespeare

"All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

— William Shakespeare

"Now is the winter of our discontent."

— William Shakespeare

"The readiness is all."

— William Shakespeare

"Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower, we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind."

— William Wordsworth

"The Child is father of the Man."

— William Wordsworth

"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist."

— Jack London

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end."

— Seneca

"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven."

— Ecclesiastes

"The long and winding road that leads to your door will never disappear."

— Paul McCartney and John Lennon

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present."

— Bill Keane

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

— Bible

"Nothing lasts forever."

— Unknown

"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places."

— Ernest Hemingway

"Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it."

— Haruki Murakami

"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"

— Henry David Thoreau

"The end crowns all."

— William Shakespeare

"All glory comes from daring to begin."

— Eugene F. Ware

"There is no beginning or end to the universe, but only a never-ending cycle of change and transformation."

— Socrates

"Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so to remain."

— E. L. Doctorow

"The future begins today, not tomorrow."

— Pope John Paul II

"It is not the end of the world, but you can see it from here."

— Jerry Seinfeld

"The end comes when we stop thinking."

— Unknown

"For last year's words belong to last year's language, and next year's words await another voice."

— T. S. Eliot

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

— L. P. Hartley

"What hath night to do with sleep?"

— John Milton

"The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things."

— Lewis Carroll

"Begin at the beginning, the King said gravely, and go on till you come to the end: then stop."

— Lewis Carroll

"Call me Ishmael."

— Herman Melville

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

— George Orwell

"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."

— Sylvia Plath

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

— Leo Tolstoy

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

— Jane Austen

"The end crowns all, and that old common arbitrator, Time, will one day end it."

— William Shakespeare

"What’s past is prologue."

— William Shakespeare

"It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness."

— Charles Dickens

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

— Bible

"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord."

— Bible

"There is no future without a past."

— Octavio Paz

"This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper."

— T. S. Eliot

"Our endings and our beginnings are all within us."

— Gregory Orr

"A thing is never finished, but merely abandoned."

— Arsene Houssaye

"The end of one road is the beginning of another."

— Unknown

"The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead."

— T. S. Eliot

"A new beginning is the opportunity to build a new future."

— Unknown

"Finish each day and be done with it."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is a time to every purpose under heaven."

— Bible

"At the end of the day, if the end result is good, all that matters is what you’ve done."

— Unknown

"It is always the beginning that requires the greatest effort."

— James Cash Penney

"In the beginning, there were the word, and the word was God."

— Unknown

"You can never step into the same river twice."

— Heraclitus

"Our beginnings never know our ends."

— George Eliot

"The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another."

— Bible

"There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story."

— Frank Herbert

"Every beginning has an end and every end is a new beginning."

— Unknown

"The hardest thing in life is to start."

— Unknown

"Hope springs eternal."

— Alexander Pope

"The first step is the hardest."

— Proverb

"In every end there is also a beginning."

— Mary Shelley

"For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice."

— T. S. Eliot

"The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity."

— Edmund Burke

"New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings."

— Lao Tzu

"You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one."

— Unknown

"Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The ending is just the beginning of another one."

— Unknown

"What is a journey without a destination?"

— Unknown

"The beginning is half the whole."

— Pythagoras

"Finis coronat opus."

— Proverb

"The time has come, the Walrus said, To talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax— Of cabbages—and kings."

— Lewis Carroll

"From small beginnings come great things."

— Proverb

"At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them."

— Laurence Binyon

"He who begins many things finishes but few."

— Italian Proverb

"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."

— T. S. Eliot

"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."

— Khalil Gibran

"One day at a time, this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come."

— Saint Francis de Sales

"Our life is made by the death of others."

— Leonardo da Vinci

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."

— Winston Churchill

"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."

— Toni Morrison

"The ending is mere the beginning."

— T. S. Eliot

"Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it."

— Confucius

"The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom."

— Proverbs 4:7

"Nothing endures but change."

— Heraclitus

"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop."

— Lewis Carroll

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."

— Ernest Hemingway

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."

— Jorge Luis Borges

"A book is a dream that you hold in your hand."

— Neil Gaiman

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."

— Frederick Douglass

"Books are a uniquely portable magic."

— Stephen King

"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island."

— Walt Disney

"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."

— Italo Calvino

"So many books, so little time."

— Frank Zappa

"The world was hers for the reading."

— Betty Smith

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."

— C. S. Lewis

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."

— Harper Lee

"Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks."

— Dr. Seuss

"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

"A good book is an event in my life."

— Stendhal

"Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are."

— Mason Cooley

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!"

— Jane Austen

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."

— Franz Kafka

"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them."

— Lemony Snicket

"There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you."

— Maya Angelou

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."

— Oscar Wilde

"Books are the training weights of the mind."

— Epictetus

"Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you."

— Harold Bloom

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors."

— Charles W. Eliot

"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return."

— Salman Rushdie

"We read to know we are not alone."

— C. S. Lewis

"An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise."

— Thomas Wharton

"A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity."

— Germaine Greer

"A book is a device to ignite the imagination."

— Alan Bennett

"The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."

— René Descartes

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

— Jane Austen

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think."

— Harper Lee

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies."

— George R. R. Martin

"Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary."

— Jim Rohn

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."

— Margaret Fuller

"There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away."

— Emily Dickinson

"Books are the mirrors of the soul."

— Virginia Woolf

"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1000 years."

— Carlo Goldoni

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books."

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket."

— Chinese Proverb

"Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly."

— Francis Bacon

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."

— Oscar Wilde

"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."

— John Locke

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."

— Abraham Lincoln

"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with profit."

— Amos Bronson Alcott

"The whole world opened to me when I learned to read."

— Mary McLeod Bethune

"If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book."

— J.K. Rowling

"A house without books is like a room without windows."

— Horace Mann

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."

— Rene Descartes

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end."

— William Styron

"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."

— Fernando Pessoa

"I cannot live without books."

— Thomas Jefferson

"The paper burns, but the words fly away."

— Ben Jonson

"Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well."

— Mark Haddon

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey."

— Anna Quindlen

"When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes."

— Erasmus

"We tell ourselves stories in order to live."

— Joan Didion

"Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books."

— Karl Lagerfeld

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."

— Haruki Murakami

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."

— Groucho Marx

"Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose."

— Unknown

"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."

— Henry Ward Beecher

"The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library."

— Albert Einstein

"Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere."

— Mary Schmich

"When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes."

— Desiderius Erasmus

"Reading one book is like eating one potato chip."

— Diane Duane

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."

— Francis Bacon

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours."

— J. D. Salinger

"The books that help you most are those which make you think the most."

— Theodore Parker

"A word after a word after a word is power."

— Margaret Atwood

"That is a part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong."

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it."

— William Styron

"Sleep is good, he said, and books are better."

— George R.R. Martin

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!"

— Jane Austen

"I love the smell of book ink in the morning."

— Umberto Eco

"What we read with pleasure we read again."

— John Ruskin

"Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind."

— Toni Morrison

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."

— Mark Twain

"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."

— Victor Hugo

"Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while."

— Malorie Blackman

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."

— Joseph Brodsky

"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations."

— Henry David Thoreau

"The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest people of the past centuries."

— René Descartes

"A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance."

— Lyndon B. Johnson

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all."

— Abraham Lincoln

"The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library."

— Albert Einstein

"A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit."

— John Milton

"Books were my pass to personal freedom."

— Oprah Winfrey

"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."

— Henry David Thoreau

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"

— Jane Austen

"A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."

— John Milton

"Books are a mirror: if an ass peers into it, you cannot expect an apostle to look out."

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books."

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one."

— George R.R. Martin

"If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book."

— J.K. Rowling

"I would rather read a poorly written book than no book at all."

— Terry Pratchett

"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island."

— Walt Disney

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."

— Charles W. Eliot

"Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write."

— Annie Proulx

"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."

— Francis Bacon

"I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place."

— Anne Tyler

"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."

— Samuel Johnson

"One must always be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

— Cassandra Clare

"I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in."

— Robert Louis Stevenson

"Choose an author as you choose a friend."

— Christopher Wren

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us."

— Franz Kafka

"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."

— Mary Wortley Montagu

"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years."

— Carl Sagan

"A house is not a home without books."

— Sydney S. Harris

"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the one who cannot read them."

— Mark Twain

"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house."

— Henry Ward Beecher

"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it, or offer your own version in return."

— Salman Rushdie

"The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night."

— Isabel Allende

"There is no substitute for books in the life of a child."

— May Ellen Chase

"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings."

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

"A good book can transport you to a different place and time."

— Unknown

"A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas."

— Norman Cousins

"Books are a mirror: if an ass peers into them, you cannot expect an apostle to look out."

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever."

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

"I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them."

— Emma Thompson

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination and the journey."

— Anna Quindlen

"The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the one that makes you think."

— Harper Lee

"A book worth reading is worth buying."

— John Ruskin

"Books may well be the only true magic."

— Alice Hoffman

"A book is like a garden, carried in the pocket."

— Chinese Proverb

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours."

— J.D. Salinger

"We lose ourselves in books, we find ourselves there too."

— Unknown

"That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet."

— Jhumpa Lahiri

"We read to know we're not alone."

— William Nicholson

"Books are a mirror of the soul."

— Virginia Woolf

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."

— Groucho Marx

"Books are a finer world within the world."

— Alexander Smith

"A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us."

— Franz Kafka

"Wear the old coat and buy the new book."

— Austin Phelps

"Books are the best companions in the world."

— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning."

— T. S. Eliot

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

— John F. Kennedy

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

— George Bernard Shaw

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Do not resist them; that only creates sorrow."

— Lao Tzu

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

— Socrates

"All great changes are preceded by chaos."

— Deepak Chopra

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."

— H. G. Wells

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

— Winston Churchill

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."

— Maya Angelou

"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."

— Albert Einstein

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

— Viktor E. Frankl

"The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings."

— Kakuzo Okakura

"Growth is the only evidence of life."

— John Henry Newman

"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not making decisions."

— Catherine Cook

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking."

— William Butler Yeats

"We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are."

— Max DePree

"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."

— Albert Einstein

"Every next level of your life will demand a different you."

— Leonardo DiCaprio

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."

— Robin Williams

"Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results."

— Robin Sharma

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

— Alan Watts

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

— Andy Warhol

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

— Charles Darwin

"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."

— Henri Bergson

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."

— Bruce Lee

"The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists."

— Proverb

"Change before you have to."

— Jack Welch

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present."

— Abraham Lincoln

"If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done."

— Thomas Jefferson

"There is nothing permanent except change."

— Heraclitus

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."

— Heraclitus

"The species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself."

— Leon C. Megginson

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."

— Albert Einstein

"In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety."

— Abraham Maslow

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

— Wayne Dyer

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."

— Seneca

"Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely."

— Karen Kaiser Clark

"Be willing to be a beginner every single morning."

— Meister Eckhart

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."

— Gail Sheehy

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."

— Carol Burnett

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

— Leo Tolstoy

"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"Growth and comfort do not coexist."

— Ginni Rometty

"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."

— Eric Hoffer

"The earth laughs in flowers."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You cannot step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you."

— Heraclitus

"What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."

— Nelson Mandela

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

— Commonly attributed to Albert Einstein

"The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways."

— Robert Greene

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow."

— Lao Tzu

"A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn."

— Helen Keller

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."

— Lao Tzu

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."

— Carl R. Rogers

"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle."

— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together."

— James Cash Penney

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, but the most adaptable."

— Charles Darwin

"What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so."

— Mark Twain

"The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way we can grow is if we change."

— C. JoyBell C.

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

— Aristotle

"There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period."

— Brené Brown

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."

— Plutarch

"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear."

— George Addair

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

— Babe Ruth

"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise."

— Oscar Wilde

"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."

— Marcus Aurelius

"If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath."

— Amit Ray

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer."

— Harriet Tubman

"The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

— Socrates

"No great thing is created suddenly."

— Epictetus

"Wisdom lies in changing the things you can and accepting the things you cannot."

— Unknown

"You must be the change you wish to see in your life."

— Unknown

"Nothing is permanent except change."

— Heraclitus

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."

— Confucius

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

— Socrates

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

— T. S. Eliot

"A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn."

— Helen Keller

"Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present."

— Bil Keane

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."

— Richard Bach

"Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next."

— Gilda Radner

"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are."

— Max DePree

"You cannot step into the same river twice."

— Heraclitus

"Growth itself contains the germ of happiness."

— Pearl S. Buck

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

— Frederick Douglass

"The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership."

— Harvey S. Firestone

"In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired."

— Unknown

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."

— Rumi

"If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down."

— Buddha

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."

— Thomas Jefferson

"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly."

— Anaïs Nin

"Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts."

— Arnold Bennett

"For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain."

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"It is never too late to give up our prejudices."

— Henry David Thoreau

"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress."

— Charles Kettering

"Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness."

— Jean Vanier

"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."

— Ellen Glasgow

"There is no growth without change, no change without fear or loss, and no loss without pain."

— Ricki Lake

"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

— Max De Pree

"What gets measured gets managed."

— Peter Drucker

"It is a law of life that those who accept their own burden, and those who undertake to improve their own condition, must strive to improve the condition of others."

— J. William Fulbright

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

— William Shakespeare

"If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down."

— Toni Morrison

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

— Oprah Winfrey

"Every day is a new beginning. Take a deep breath, smile, and start again."

— Unknown

"A change of environment can be a blessing."

— Proverb

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."

— Anaïs Nin

"The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise."

— Alden Nowlan

"The only journey is the one within."

— Rainer Maria Rilke

"Life is a progress, and not a station."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."

— Sigmund Freud

"We all have two lives. The second begins when we realize we only have one."

— Unknown

"Nothing can dim the light which shines from within."

— Maya Angelou

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

— Maria Robinson

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

— Norman Vincent Peale

"When you are through changing, you are through."

— Bruce Barton

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

— John F. Kennedy

"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."

— Abraham Maslow

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through."

— Anaïs Nin

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

— Mark Twain

"Maturity is the ability to rephrase in a way that is gentle, not to destroy."

— Ellen Glasgow

"The only constant in life is change."

— Heraclitus

"The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

— Socrates

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."

— Neale Donald Walsch

"If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got."

— Albert Einstein

"Things do not change; we change."

— Henry David Thoreau

"One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter."

— James Earl Jones

"You cannot step twice into the same river."

— Heraclitus

"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."

— Thomas Edison

"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts."

— Nikki Giovanni

"You can never plan the future by the past."

— Edmund Burke

"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."

— Benjamin Franklin

"Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well."

— Maya Angelou

"We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

— Oprah Winfrey

"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know."

— Pema Chödrön

"You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."

— André Gide

"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not."

— Oprah Winfrey

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

— Abraham Lincoln

"Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you."

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"A man is known by the company he keeps."

— Aesop

"The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions."

— Junius

"Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it."

— William Penn

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true."

— Abraham Lincoln

"Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike."

— Theodore Roosevelt

"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking."

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."

— Ambrose Bierce

"No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character."

— John Morley

"A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold."

— Proverb

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."

— Mark Twain

"A false thing can endure for a moment, but the truth is enduring."

— Buddha

"If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it."

— Marcus Aurelius

"A person's character is not only judged by the company they keep, but by the company they avoid."

— Unknown

"Without integrity, nothing works."

— Eric K. Shinseki

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice."

— Confucius

"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything."

— Malcolm X

"Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us."

— Thomas Paine

"The highest compact we can make with our fellow is: Let there be truth between us two forevermore."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"One cannot sell one's soul for a little; one must sell it whole."

— Proverb

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."

— John Wooden

"He who is firm in will molds the world to himself."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Character is not made in a crisis—it is only exhibited."

— Robert Freeman

"A man has to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job."

— John Wayne

"Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men."

— George S. Patton

"True character consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

— Confucius

"We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot."

— Abraham Lincoln

"Integritiy is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching."

— C. S. Lewis

"A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation."

— Mark Twain

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."

— Thomas Jefferson

"A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold."

— Bible

"Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency."

— Maya Angelou

"It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong."

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"A person is only as good as his word."

— Proverb

"Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time."

— Elbert Hubbard

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."

— Ernest Hemingway

"A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth."

— Aesop

"A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight."

— Bible

"The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example."

— Benjamin Disraeli

"A person's character is shown through their actions in life, not where they sit on Sunday."

— Naval Ravikant

"A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold."

— Proverbs 22:1

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

— Mark Twain

"Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it."

— William Penn

"It is not the honour that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind."

— Branch Rickey

"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."

— Marcus Aurelius

"Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good."

— Joe Paterno

"A person's character is not measured by how they treat the people they love, but by how they treat the people they hate."

— Unknown

"Do not judge others by their religion, race, or the clothes they wear; judge them by the content of their character."

— Martin Luther King Jr.

"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection."

— Thomas Paine

"Character is the moral strength to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay."

— Unknown

"It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters."

— Evander Holyfield

"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits."

— Richard M. Nixon

"A good conscience is a continual feast."

— Proverb

"The highest compact we can make with our fellow is, 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore.'"

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you."

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness."

— Yousuf Karsh

"Without character, you cannot succeed for long."

— Vince Lombardi

"One thing about being a winner is being a winner in the mind first."

— John C. Maxwell

"Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."

— Winston Churchill

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."

— Mother Teresa

"Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it."

— M. H. McKee

"If it isn't right, don't do it; if it isn't true, don't say it."

— Marcus Aurelius

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Truth is mighty and will prevail."

— Sojourner Truth

"An honest man's the noblest work of God."

— Alexander Pope

"Character is higher than intellect."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"A person should be truthful, and one should keep one's word."

— Abraham Lincoln

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

— Abraham Lincoln

"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do."

— John Holt

"Watch your thoughts, for they will become actions."

— Proverb

"A man's reputation is what other people think of him; his character is what he really is."

— Jack Miner

"Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved."

— Martin Luther

"Better to be a man of value than a man of success."

— Albert Einstein

"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself."

— Plato

"I prefer a man who burns with desire and ambition and who knows how to make his word good."

— Theodore Roosevelt

"Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do."

— Potter Stewart

"A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches."

— Proverbs 22:1

"It is not what he has, or even what he does which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is."

— Henri-Frederic Amiel

"One ought every day to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"It takes character to tell the truth and courage to do what is right."

— Unknown

"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."

— Martin Luther King Jr.

"You are what you do, not what you say you'll do."

— C. G. Jung

"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

— Abraham Lincoln

"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."

— George Eliot

"Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite."

— Arab Proverb

"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."

— Benjamin Franklin

"Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground."

— Unknown

"The test of a man's character is what it takes to stop him."

— Unknown

"When a man is willing and eager, the gods join in."

— Aeschylus

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

— Mark Twain

"The dignity of man lies in thought."

— Blaise Pascal

"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not."

— Oprah Winfrey

"Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking."

— J. C. Watts

"A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation."

— Mark Twain

"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow."

— Abraham Lincoln

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."

— Aristotle

"It is not the name on the door that matters, but the character of the man inside."

— Unknown

"What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right."

— Albert Einstein

"Genius is the recovery of childhood at will."

— Arthur Rimbaud

"The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back."

— Abigail Van Buren

"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others."

— Winston Churchill

"Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning."

— Maya Angelou

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is not enough to do the right thing; it is also important to make the right decision."

— Unknown

"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."

— Adolf Hitler

"Better to be a man of principle than a man of policy."

— Unknown

"It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well."

— Rene Descartes

"We must not be afraid to stand out, to be different; and the true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members."

— Unknown

"A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person."

— Dave Barry

"Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people."

— Proverbs 14:34

"One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised."

— Chinua Achebe

"The highest compact we can make with our fellow is, Let there be truth between us two forevermore."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world."

— Muhammad

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones."

— John Maynard Keynes

"I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises."

— John F. Kennedy

"One good deed is not enough to compensate for a lifetime of bad conduct."

— Mahatma Gandhi

"Once a principle is compromised, it is compromised forever."

— Unknown

"He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love."

— Martin Luther King Jr.

"It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong."

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live."

— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring and integrity, they think of you."

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"The real test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching."

— Unknown

"A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Goodness is about character—integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like."

— Dennis Prager

"A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world."

— Muhammad

"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions."

— Lillian Hellman

"One's character is set at an early age. The choices we make are ours alone."

— Jeanne Moreau

"It is not what he has that makes a man rich, but what he is."

— Henry Ward Beecher

"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."

— Oliver Goldsmith

"A man is measured by the way he treats his inferiors, not his equals."

— J. K. Rowling

"We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it."

— Abraham Lincoln

"To see what is right and not do it is want of courage, or of principle."

— Confucius

"A man's true character comes out when he's drunk."

— Charlie Chaplin

"There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us."

— Sophocles

"Let your conscience be your guide."

— Pinocchio

"A person's character is not judged by how much he has, but by how much he gives."

— Unknown

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

— A. A. Milne

"Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control."

— Richard Kline

"Man often becomes what he believes himself to be."

— Mahatma Gandhi

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life."

— Marcus Garvey

"Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."

— Coco Chanel

"Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth."

— Rumi

"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."

— Benjamin Spock

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

— Buddha

"If you hear a voice within you say, 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."

— Vincent van Gogh

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

— Anaïs Nin

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

— Helen Keller

"The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you."

— William Jennings Bryan

"With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world."

— Dalai Lama

"Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it."

— Mahatma Gandhi

"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it."

— Charles R. Swindoll

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."

— Christian D. Larson

"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

— Vincent van Gogh

"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."

— Margaret Thatcher

"If you don't ask, the answer is always no."

— Nora Roberts

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

— Suzy Kassem

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right."

— Henry Ford

"Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."

— Roy T. Bennett

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."

— Ayn Rand

"Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong."

— Peter T. Mcintyre

"Nothing can dim the light that shines from within."

— Maya Angelou

"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right."

— Henry Ford

"Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth."

— Rumi

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Confidence is the most important thing, more important than gold or currency."

— Wendy Wei

"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it."

— J. M. Barrie

"Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall."

— Serena Williams

"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself."

— Mark Caine

"With confidence, you have won before you have started."

— Marcus Garvey

"To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the right people are all great things."

— Kobe Bryant

"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

— John Wooden

"Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing."

— Theodore Roosevelt

"Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself."

— Roy T. Bennett

"The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end."

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’"

— Audrey Hepburn

"I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."

— Muhammad Ali

"If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride and never quit, you'll be a winner."

— Paul Bryant

"Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

— John Wooden

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity."

— Amelia Earhart

"A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what ships are built for."

— John A. Shedd

"Fall seven times and stand up eight."

— Japanese Proverb

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

— Confucius

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

— Mark Twain

"The only way out is through."

— Robert Frost

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

— Muhammad Ali

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Once you choose hope, anything's possible."

— Christopher Reeve

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

— Margaret Thatcher

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

— Mahatma Gandhi

"The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph."

— George Washington

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

— Confucius

"Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel."

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"When the going gets tough, the tough get going."

— Proverb

"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor."

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you."

— Walt Whitman

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

— James A. Michener

"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived."

— Robert Jordan

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

— Ernest Hemingway

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

— Benjamin Franklin

"Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence."

— Calvin Coolidge

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."

— H. G. Wells

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

— Samuel Johnson

"Perseverance is a great element of success."

— Unknown

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is how high you raise your foot."

— Benny Lewis

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

— Louisa May Alcott

"The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us but those who win battles we know nothing about."

— Unknown

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Fall down seven times, stand up eight."

— Japanese Proverb

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

— André Gide

"A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what ships are for."

— John A. Shedd

"Fortune favors the brave."

— Virgil

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

— Robert F. Kennedy

"He conquers who endures."

— Persius

"Keep going. Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time."

— Unknown

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

— Robert H. Schuller

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

— Winston S. Churchill

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent."

— Calvin Coolidge

"You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

— Marcus Aurelius

"To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man."

— Euripides

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."

— Chinese Proverb

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

— Nelson Mandela

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

— Martin Luther King Jr.

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

— Winston Churchill

"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”"

— Mary Anne Radmacher

"A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

— Ernest Hemingway

"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."

— Oprah Winfrey

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."

— Winston Churchill

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!”"

— Audrey Hepburn

"Only in the darkness can you see the stars."

— Martin Luther King Jr.

"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."

— Lao Tzu

"Stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong."

— 1 Corinthians 16:13

"The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

— Nelson Mandela

"Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."

— Galatians 6:9

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

— Henry David Thoreau

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

— Maya Angelou

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

— Confucius

"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death."

— Omar N. Bradley

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated."

— Maya Angelou

"It always seems impossible until it is done."

— Nelson Mandela

"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."

— Bruce Lee

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as if you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."

— Kenji Miyazawa

"Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals."

— Angela Duckworth

"Never, never, never give up."

— Winston Churchill

"For of those to whom much is given, much is required."

— John F. Kennedy

"The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow."

— Robert Tew

"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."

— Mother Teresa

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."

— Maya Angelou

"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves."

— Dale Carnegie

"Stand in your truth, even when it is difficult."

— Unknown

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

— Proverb

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."

— John A. Shedd

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"A brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

— Nelson Mandela

"We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough."

— Helen Keller

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."

— Ambrose Redmoon

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"If you’re going through hell, keep going."

— Winston Churchill

"A brave man acknowledges the strength of others."

— Veronica Roth

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

— John Wooden

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men."

— John F. Kennedy

"We are twice armed if we fight with faith."

— Plato

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence."

— Calvin Coolidge

"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass, it's about learning how to dance in the rain."

— Vivian Greene

"Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

— Ernest Hemingway

"To err is human; to persist, diabolical."

— Unknown

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

— Ambrose Redmoon

"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense."

— Winston Churchill

"The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun; it’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence."

— Napoleon Hill

"Without continuous growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."

— Benjamin Franklin

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

— Dale Carnegie

"Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty."

— John Ruskin

"A ship is always safe at shore but that is not what it's built for."

— Albert Einstein

"No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch."

— Unknown

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."

— Ernest Hemingway

"Man's greatness lies in his power of thought."

— Blaise Pascal

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."

— Tommy Lasorda

"Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid."

— Franklin P. Jones

"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek."

— Joseph Campbell

"He who is brave is free."

— Seneca

"We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough."

— Helen Keller

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing."

— Abraham Lincoln

"Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint."

— Angela Duckworth

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."

— Abraham Lincoln

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden."

— Seneca

"Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever."

— Unknown

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."

— Walter Elliot

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence."

— Calvin Coolidge

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

— Herman Melville

"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."

— Anne Frank

"We are made strong by the challenges we face."

— Unknown

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear."

— Mark Twain

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit."

— Conrad Hilton

"We can do hard things."

— Unknown

"To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be courageous enough to live for something."

— Criss Jami

"Start by doing what is necessary; then do what is possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

— Francis of Assisi

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear."

— Ambrose Redmoon

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened."

— Helen Keller

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat, and to accept the task of enduring pain, is the mark of a strong man."

— Ben Affleck

"I am not afraid... I was born to do this."

— Joan of Arc

"Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Though she be but little, she is fierce."

— William Shakespeare

"Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed."

— Bob Riley

"Every artist was first an amateur."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

— Edgar Degas

"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."

— George Bernard Shaw

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

— Pablo Picasso

"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."

— César A. Cruz

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."

— Pablo Picasso

"Great art picks up where nature ends."

— Marc Chagall

"To create is to live twice."

— Albert Camus

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."

— Thomas Merton

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working."

— Pablo Picasso

"The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity."

— Alberto Giacometti

"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."

— James Whistler

"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."

— Oscar Wilde

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

— Aristotle

"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."

— Plutarch

"Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind."

— Johannes Brahms

"A picture is a poem without words."

— Horace

"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."

— Francis Bacon

"Art is never finished, only abandoned."

— Leonardo da Vinci

"An idea is salvation by imagination."

— Frank Lloyd Wright

"If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."

— Edward Hopper

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are."

— Oscar Wilde

"Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration."

— Helmut Jahn

"The creative adult is the child who survived."

— Ursula K. Le Guin

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

— Pablo Picasso

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."

— Pablo Picasso

"The chief enemy of creativity is good sense."

— Pablo Picasso

"Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is."

— Jackson Pollock

"To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage."

— Georgia O'Keeffe

"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."

— William Shakespeare

"Music is the shorthand of emotion."

— Leo Tolstoy

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"Music can change the world because it can change people."

— Bono

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."

— Robert Frost

"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."

— Robert Frost

"The poet is the priest of the invisible."

— Wallace Stevens

"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

— Vladimir Nabokov

"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art."

— Paul Cezanne

"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The principle of true art is not to portray, but to evoke."

— Jerzy Kosinski

"If you hear a voice within you say, 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

— Vincent van Gogh

"The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them."

— Anton Chekhov

"The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before."

— Neil Gaiman

"To be an artist is to believe in life."

— Henry Moore